'Liberal' media sure buried this story: Man murdered his own sister because she was "too liberal"

[ck4829]

The murder happened back in 2006, it has been pretty much buried, and I found it randomly just now.

"A man stabbed and bludgeoned his sister and her husband to death in El Cerrito in 2006 because he thought the couple were too liberal, were raising their children wrong and because they hadn't invited him over for Christmas, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.

Edward Wycoff, 40, of the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights coldly planned the slayings, including getting Lasik surgery and using night-vision goggles so he could find his way around the house where Julie Wycoff Rogers, 47, lived with her husband, Paul Rogers, 48, prosecutor Mark Peterson said.

He also purposefully picked the date for the killings - Jan. 31, 2006 - Peterson said in Contra Costa County Superior Court in Martinez. That was 20 years to the day after Wycoff's grandmother, whom he hated, left his home after breaking her hip, the prosecutor said.

Wycoff regarded his grandmother as "evil" and thought his life improved considerably after she left, Peterson said. Because he believed the couple had also been making his life miserable, he chose that date to break into their home on Rifle Range Road overlooking Wildcat Canyon Regional Park, stab them repeatedly with a knife and bludgeon them with a wheelbarrow handle, Peterson said in his opening statement in Wycoff's murder trial.

Although Wycoff was also armed with a gun, he didn't use it because he didn't want to boost the cause of gun-control supporters, the prosecutor said.

Wycoff, who is serving as his own attorney, told jurors that he still hates the couple "a little."

"They owe me a life," he said. "This has ruined my life, and Julie and Paul owe me for that."

Wycoff agreed with the prosecutor that he resented members of Paul Rogers' family for their liberal politics, and that he thought the couple were at times "too easy" when they disciplined their children.

Peterson said Wycoff had planned to adopt the couple's three children after he committed the killings."

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/14/BAL81A4SU0.DTL#ixzz0vAcHIfu7

Convicted last October.

http://articles.sfgate.com/2009-10-28/bay-area/17185287_1_penalty-phase-capital-case-stabbing

And I'm willing to bet this is the first time you've heard about this, right?

(Oh, and part of the disguise he used during the murders involved his own dead grandmother's hair. Really.)

[groovedaddy]

1. One sick dude...provoked, no doubt, by right wing media. n.t

[itsrobert]

2. The guy was/is Mentally Il

Probably due to a lifetime listening to Rush Limbaugh and the right wing media. There are probably many like him out there. I.E. Freeperville

[LittleGirl]

3. what is too liberal?

and he killed them because they didn't invite him over for Christmas?

*shakes head* if they are too liberal, why would he associate with them?

What a nutcase!

[warrior1]

4. Your right

I had never heard of that and I live in Sacramento.

[Semi_subversive]

8. Me neither, and I live about 1/2 half mile from CH

[tanyev]

5. Actually, I think I recall several DU threads about this at the time it happened.

I hope the SOB got a life sentence for that.

[Triana]

6. This is what listening to Limbaugh, Beck, Breitbart, Fox, etc. will do to people.

Turn them into rabid psychopaths. Sometimes I call them "The Psychopath Party". Republicans hate 'socialism', they prefer sociopathic - and they are.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. It's sure made the pages of DU! This is probably the 20th. time it's appeared here over the years.